Calvin vooehis



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O. VOORHIS.

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N0. 366,666. Patented July 12,1887.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALVIN VOORHIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ABRAHAMSHENFIELD, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENDER-END.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,536, dated July 12,1887.

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To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CA-LVIN Voomns, of the city and State of New York,have invented an Improvement in Suspender-Ends, ofwhich the following isa specification.

Suspender-ends have been made of cord, and also of chains, withbutton-hole loops at the ends ofthe cords or chains; but the buttonholeloop or fastening is liable to turn partially around and the chain totwist; hence the button-hole loop will not always occupy the correctposition to the button.

My invention relates to a suspender-end made of wire, in the form of aladder chain, that is connected by a metal loop at the upper end to thesuspender buckle or fastening,

.so as to lie flat and not become twisted, and

at the bottom end there is a spring-clip for grasping the button on thepantaloons.

In the'drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the suspender-end formedwith wire ladderchains and sheetmetal button clips at the lower ends.Fig. 2 is a cross-section at the line am, and Fig. 3 is a section at theline 3, y.

At the lower end of the suspender'end is a loop or clip for thereception of the button, and at the upper end a connection for thebuckle or other attaching device upon the suspender itself. These partsmay be of any desired character. I have, however, shown a clasp, A,connecting the upper parts of the suspender ends to the Suspender, whichclasp is preferably cut out of sheet metal, with a hook, 2, to catchover a ring or loop upon the buckle B, and with a spring tongue, 3, thatprevents the hook separating from the buckle until the tongue is pushedback and the crossbar portion 4 receives the upper ends of theladder-chains E, composing, with the buttonhole loops F, thesuspenderends, and it is usual to provide a third laddcnchain, G, and aloop or clasp, H, for grasping the band of the drawers.

In Letters Patent No. 221,474, granted November 11, 1879, a buttonholeloop for a sus pender-end is shown as made of a folded piece of flatbraided cord received at its ends into a clasp of sheet metal. This maybe used at the bottom of the ladder-chain suspender-ends; but I haveshown and prefer to use the sheetmetal button-clasp represented in thedrawings, the same being an improvement upon that set forth in LettersPatent No. 353,893,

granted to G. WV. Stewart December. 7, 1886. In this sl1eet metalbutton-clasp the wings 6, that are folded over, form a tapering recess,into which the button passes, the widest end being upward, so that theclasp is drawn up over the button from below, and the tension of thesuspendcr keeps the clasp, with the button, toward the narrowest lowerportion; butin some instances where the suspenderend becomes loose, fromthe person sitting down or leaning forward,the buttouioop may slip downand become disconnected from the button. To prevent this, I cut in thesheet metal two diverging slots, forming between them the springtongue8, that can be set backwardly to any desired extent, so that the tonguepresses against the face of the button to hold the same by frictionbetween the converging wings, and the extreme upper end of this tongueis to be bent outwardly, so that the point of the tongue will beinclined, and it will be pressed back by contact with the button as thesheet-metal clasp is drawn up over the said button, and this tongue willspring back over or against the button to hold the same in positionwithin the clasp.

It will be apparent that the peculiar chain made use of by me is notliable to wind or twist, because there are two eyes at the upper end ofeach chain, that are closed around the cross-bar 4 and keep the chain inproper position, so as to lie flat against the clothing.

I claim as my invention 1. The Suspender attachment herein described,consisting of the spring-hook having a cross-bar, 4, at the lower part,the ladderchains, each having its two end eyes around the crossbar, anda clasp at the lower end for the button, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, in a suspender-end, of a button-hole loop of sheetmetal, having the wings G, that receive the button between them, and thespringtongue 8, with its upper end bent backwardly, to spring over thebutton and hold the same in position,substantially as set forth.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINcKNEY, WVILLIAM G. Mo'rr.

Signed by me this 21th day of February,

